Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ye may rejoice (xarhte). Second aorist passive subjunctive with ina in final clause of xairw, to rejoice.
That I may be the less sorrowful (kagw alupoterov w). Present subjunctive with ina and comparative of old compound adjective alupov (a privative and luph, more free from grief). Beautiful expression of Paul's feelings for the Philippians and for Epaphroditus.
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